Nightmares and hallucinations after long-term intake of tramadol combined with antidepressants.

abstract：:Objectives: Water and electrolytes disturbances often occur in renal transplant recipients. The objective is to describe the pathophysiology and the treatment of the most prevalent abnormalities. Methods: We screened PubMed for the following words in various combination: kidney transplantation and (disturbances or abn...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： De Waele L,Van Gaal PJ,Abramowicz D

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Altered iron metabolism plays a central role in the development of anaemia in critically ill patients but the time course of iron status in septic and non-septic critically ill patients has not been well defined. METHODS:Prospective study in a 34-bed medico-surgical ICU. The complete blood count, iron, ferr...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Piagnerelli M,Cotton F,Herpain A,Rapotec A,Chatti R,Gulbis B,Vincent JL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Since the second World Congress on the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (WCACS) in Noosa 2 years ago, interest and publications on intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) and ACS have increased exponentially. This paper aimed to critically review recent publications and put this new data into the context of alrea...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Wauters J,Wilmer A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Automated insulin calculators (AICs) with carbohydrate counting (CHC) have been shown to be effective in improving glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels. By contrast, use of AICs without CHC, with predetermined prandial insulin doses modified according to a correction factor and modulated as a function of glyc...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Oriot P,Ponchon M,Hermans MP

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central venous catheters are widely used in clinical practice. Air embolism is a rare, but potentially life threatening complication of central venous catheterisation. We describe a case of collapse and transient hemiplegia after removal of central venous catheter. This was accidentally performed with the patient in u...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Van Ierssel S,Specenier P,Baar I,De Belder F,Jorens PG,Vermorken JB

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 25 year old male who presented with a well-circumscribed mass in the infratemporal fossa, without intracranial localisation. On histological examination, this tumor was a transitional type of meningioma. We review the literature and discuss the pathogenesis and the differential diagnosis. ...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Galant C,Rombaux P,Hamoir M,Marbaix E,Gosseye S

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to investigate, through a patient chart analysis, the average and the variation in the medical resource use in pulmonary embolism (PE) patients in Belgium, and to find explanatory variables for the possible variation. A sample of patients with confirmed PE (n = 54) from 5 centres was se...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Annemans L,Robays H,Bruart J,Verstraeten P

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Belgium, individual laboratory and treatment data of all HIV-infected patients seen in the 9 AIDS Reference Centres and 7 AIDS Reference Laboratories are collected prospectively since 2006. We present here an analysis of patients recorded in the cohort database between 1st of January 2006 and 31st of December 2008....

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Van Beckhoven D,Buvé A,Ruelle J,Seyler L,Sasse A,Belgian HIV Cohort Study Group.

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In comparing four currently available immunochemical methods for immunoglobulin quantification, i.e. radial immunodiffusion (RID), rate nephelometry (RN), laser nephelometry (LN) and turbidimetry (T), highly divergent results were obtained for monoclonal immunoglobulins. Comparison with data obtained by densitometric ...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Gorus F,Stesses S,Camp BV

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rare case of fulminant congestive heart failure with fatal outcome in a 21-year-old girl with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). A young woman was admitted in the intensive care unit for pericardial tamponade associated with disseminated coagulopathy and refractory shock secondary to multiple coronary ane...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Ha Vu N,Duttmann R,De Bels D,Devriendt J,Reper P

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a systematic survey of original papers published in The Lancet throughout the years 1945, 1946, 1970 and 1995. The Lancet was chosen due to a conservative layout through these years, and the year 1946 added to the analysis to ponder for any war-induced bias. The general layout and structure of the journal...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Selvais P,Hermans M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-dimers (DD), specific degradation products of crosslinked fibrin, are markers for activation of plasma coagulation and/or fibrinolysis. DD results below the cut-off level are proven to be useful to rule out the probable diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and/or pulmonary embolism (PE). Our objective was to de...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Ver Elst K,Jochmans K,De Pauw A,De Waele M

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) can detect geriatric problems and potentially improve survival, physical, and cognitive state of patients, as well as increase an older person's chances of staying at home longer. In older people, the number and severity of comorbidity increase with age and are an...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Denewet N,De Breucker S,Luce S,Kennes B,Higuet S,Pepersack T

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the case of a 67-year-old woman, with mitral valve prolapse, for more than 20 years. She recently complained of attacks of syncope and clinical ventricular tachycardia; ventricular fibrillation was induced during programmed stimulation. The patient seemed to be at high risk for sudden cardiac death,...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Van Caenegem O,Chaudron JM,Scavée C,de Meester A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has significantly improved the quality of life of persons with HIV infection. However, new problems have arisen as a consequence of this treatment. An immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in which patients experience a paradoxical worsening of their clinic...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Huis in 't Veld D,Lukande R,Lammens M,Conesa-Botella A,Vlieghe E,Van Marck E,Pauwels P,Colebunders R

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:25 hospitalized patients, suffering from acute bronchopulmonary affections, received every 24 hours, one I.M. injection of 750 mg of tetracycline laurylsulfate (equivalent to 500 mg of tetracycline HCl). Positive clinical results were obtained in all cases. All isolated micro-organisms, sensitive in vitro to tetracycl...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Sternon J,de Hemptinne J,Sergysels R,Butzler JP,Yourassowsky E

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported the case of a patient with stage IV Hodgkin's disease (involving the nodes and Liver) presenting with paraneoplastic fever and who subsequently developed hypothermia during chemotherapy administration. We also reviewed the 12 other cases of hypothermia in Hodgkin's disease reported in the literature and di...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Meert AP,Berghmans T,Sculier JP

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors reported a 56-year-old man with progressive pain over left bottom of oral cavity involving tongue for 3 days. He had a puncture history of tongue by fishbone, which was immediately removed 3 weeks ago. The subsequent contrast-enhanced computed tomography scan of neck disclosed an abscess formation with a f...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Chen PL,Chiang CW,Shiao CC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-closure of abdominal fascia and the resultant open abdomen after laparotomy has become a major advance in the management of critically ill or injured patients. The benefits of open abdomen are many and include the prevention of intra-abdominal hypertension and the consequent abdominal compartment syndrome. Appropr...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Ivatury RR,Kolkman KA,Johansson K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Metastatic clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (m-ccRCC) patients with bone metastases (BM) treated with vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) have a poorer outcome compared to patients without BM. We aimed to investigate whether an increased incidence of VEGFR-TK...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Haaker L,De Meue E,Wildiers H,Verbiest A,Dumez H,Lerut E,Pans S,Albersen M,Beuselinck B

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Q fever is a global zoonosis that can cause both acute and chronic infections in humans through aerogenic transmission. Although Q fever was discovered already 80 years ago, this infectious disease remains largely unknown. We studied a case series in a Belgian tertiary care hospital. METHODS:A laboratory an...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Vanderbeke L,Peetermans WE,Saegeman V,De Munter P

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchiolitis Obliterans Organizing Pneumonia (BOOP) can complicate allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. It is associated with prior graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and the case fatality is 21%. In 22%, diagnosis is preceded by tapering the corticosteroids given as a treatment for GVHD. We report a fa...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Deeren D,Lammertijn L,Van Dorpe J

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pain acceptance is considered important for mental well-being with better functional outcomes for chronic pain patients. The present study explored whether pain-related variables (pain severity, pain interference, pain duration, and pain catastrophizing) and non-pain-related variables (personality traits) inf...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Poppe C,Crombez G,Devulder J,Hanoulle I,Vogelaers D,Petrovic M

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P-glycoprotein, a pump located in the plasma cell membrane, extrudes several clinically important drugs from the cell, and hence causes multidrug resistance. Reversing clinical drug resistance is possible by using agents that inhibit the activity of P-glycoprotein. We describe the results of sequential flow cytometric...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： De Moerloose B,Muylaert A,Gemmel F,Janssens A,Poppe B,Dhooge C,Benoit Y,Van Hove W,Philippé J

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND:The management of therapy-resistant lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and symptoms resulting from pelvic organ dysfunctions are subject to a high variability in the Belgian health-care centres. Practical guidelines and standardized patient clinical care pathways are often lacking and unadapted...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Ghijselings L,Van De Putte D,Hervé F,Goessaert AS,Beeckman D,Pattyn P,Everaert K

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:It has been well established that musculoskeletal complaints are common among dentistry students. However, data regarding the comparison of overall musculoskeletal health between dental and medical students is scarce. The objective of the current study was to compare musculoskeletal health between medical an...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Coskun Benlidayi I,Al-Bayati Z,Guzel R,Sarpel T

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 69-year-old man with slight dyspnoea underwent routine X-ray examination by his primary care physician. The X-ray and the CT showed a homogenous mass at the right side of the anterior mediastinum. The benignity and the origin of the tissue were still unknown. Therefore, we performed a CT-guided fine needle aspiratio...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Michels G,Drebber U,Pfister R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with hepatitis B virus has become a vaccine-preventable disease. The recombinant hepatitis B vaccines available today are safe and immunogenic. In order for these vaccines to eradicate HBV a universal vaccination of neonates and/or children needs to be implemented. Major obstacles on the road to global hepat...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Leroux-Roels G,Cao T,De Knibber A,Meuleman P,Roobrouck A,Farhoudi A,Vanlandschoot P,Desombere I

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report and discuss the case of a 51-year-old patient undergoing elective laparoscopic surgery for pheochromocytoma after 10 days of medical pre-treatment. After anaesthetic induction, a deep level of anaesthesia could not prevent the onset of repeated hypertensive peaks, followed by severe hypotensive periods. Once...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Jakus L,Jacquet LM,Maiter D,Mourad M,Jonas C,Scholtes JL

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drugs with potential cardiac toxicity are prominent in cancer treatment, not only the old chemotherapeutic agents, but also the newer targeted drugs and biologic agents. As the long-term survival of patients with malignancies has improved and cancer turned into a chronic disease, physicians must take into account the ...

journal_title：Acta clinica Belgica

authors： Combes M,Rottey S,De Backer T

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00